private String eMail;
public void setEMail(String eMail) {...}
does not work either. It seems to me that eMail is a correct design pattern. When
I had changed eMail to email and setEMail to setEmail it worked.
"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
> Zhiyong Li wrote:
>
> > I have two questions related with the set methods in any of the Form
> > class, such as MyActionForm.
> >
> > 1. It seems to me that if we use a form with POST method, the
> > corresponding "set" method will be called as it should be. What I want
> > to confirm is that if I have the URL with query string, does the
> > parameter specified overthere also cause the "set" to be called? For
> > example, I have the URL: http://.../action?name=value And in the
> > MyActionForm.java, I have the method:
> >
> > public void setName(String name) {name = value;}
> >
>
> I imagine you really meant:
>
> private String name;
> public void setName(String name) {this.name = name;}
>
> right?
>
> >
> > My experiment shows that when I clicked the URL, setName got called.
> >
>
> Yes -- the controller servlet sees that the field name (from the form) matches
> the property name (from the bean), once you apply the JavaBeans design patterns
> for method names. See the JavaBeans spec for more details.
>
> >
> > 2. My second question is that I found the "set" method did not got
> > called if the length of the "keyword" is 2. For example, in the above
> > example, if "name" is "aT" and I have the "set" method,
> >
> > public void setAT(String aT) {aT = value;}
> >
> > The "setAT" does not got called.
> >
>
> That's because this spelling does not match the required design pattern, so the
> controller servlet (actually, it is the Java introspector that is used to ask a
> bean class what it's property setter methods are) does not recognize this as a
> property.
>
> >
> > Thank you for the help,
> > Zhiyong Li
> > Platform Development
> > iBiomatics LLC , a SAS Company
> > (919) 653-2746
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Craig McClanahan
